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There are many metaphors we can quickly identify from the realm of sports: covering all the bases (baseball), game plan (football), and par for the course (golf). But the English language is also peppered with the not-so-obvious influence of sports and games, such as go-to guy (basketball) and dead ringer (horse racing). Filled with pithy entries on each idiom, plus quotes showing how big talkers from President Obama to rapper Ice-T use them, this quirky little handbook from former minor league ballplayer and award-winning journalist Josh Chetwynd is sure to be a conversation starter at tailgates, cocktail parties, and in the boardroom.
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Copyright 2016 by Josh Chetwynd
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
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Ten Speed Press and the Ten Speed Press colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chetwynd, Josh, 1971
Field guide to sports metaphors : a compendium of competitive words and idioms / Josh Chetwynd.
First Edition. | New York : Ten Speed Press, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCSH: English languageTerms and phrases. | English languageFigures of speech. | English languageIdioms
Dictionaries. | SportsTerminology.
LCC PE1689 .C53 2016 | DDC 808/.032dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015031726
Hardcover ISBN9781607748113
eBook ISBN9781607748120
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For my parents, Gloria and Lionel,
and my brother Michael
English has relied on many performance enhancers to build its immensely rich vocabulary. Sure, Shakespeare and the Bible have led the way, but this book is a reminder that sports have also played a huge role in bulking up our language. Quite simply, the games we love and the athletic endeavors we play have been essential when it comes to developing our everyday phrases and words.
How pervasive is this gift? Look no further than the long line of presidents who have leaned on sports for linguistic assistance. For example, when Teddy Roosevelt decided hed run for president in 1912, he relied on boxing chatter, saying,
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